· Private foundation
Gardner Cowles III Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HEARTS OF THE HERD | $10,000 |
| BOWDOIN COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| TRUSTEES OF TUFTS | $3,000 |
| THE ELLEN HERMANSON FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| BAY STREET THEATER | $2,500 |
| SOUTHAMPTON HOSP FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| NAPLES THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER | $2,250 |
| HEART OF THE HAMPTONS | $2,000 |
| SAG HARBOR COMM FOOD PANTRY | $2,000 |
| TRINITY BY THE COVE | $1,000 |
| ST ANN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $1,000 |
| THE BRIDGEHAMPTON MUSEUM | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–21, $750) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
29 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BCBowdoin College8× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +94%
- TSTHE SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2025 · $30k · revenue +339%
- TETHE ELLEN P HERMANSON FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $28k · revenue +76%
Funded once
- TUTUFTS UNIV COMMINGS SCHOOLone grant, 2023 · $3k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $3k
- UMUNIV MIAMI BASCOM PLAMER EYE INSTIone grant, 2019 · $200
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To serve the people of the Saratoga region by providing them access to excellence in healthcare in a supportive and caring environment.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
South shore hospital's primary exempt purpose is to provide health care services to the community including surgical, medical and other treatment of the sick and injured. south shore health system has an overarching mission for every…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Sarasota memorial healthcare foundation is the philanthropic partner that helps sarasota memorial health care system bring world-class care to our community.
Peconic Public Broadcasting is a public FM radio station located in Southampton, New York. The station services Long Island and coastal Connecticut and offers listeners both national and local programs.
To preserve, cultivate, and share historic sylvester manor.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The foundation's specific purpose is to solicit, receive, and maintain gifts of money and property, and to make decisions on the distributions of such money and property, to support albany general hospital and health svcs in the general…
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
Brighton marine, inc. provides military and veteran families with comprehensive campus-based quality health care, as well as affordable and supportive housing for at-risk veterans and their families.
How this is measured
17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 34 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds FIGHTING CHANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Bowdoin College ↗
- Who funds THE SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE ELLEN P HERMANSON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BAY STREET THEATRE FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds STONY BROOK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALLEN-CHASE FOUNDATION DBA EAGLEBROOK SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HEART OF THE HAMPTONS LTD ↗
- Who funds THE TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SALISBURY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds SAG HARBOR COMM FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds JOHN JERMAIN MEMORIAL LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds LONGHOUSE RESERVE ↗
- Who funds Naples Therapeutic Riding Center Inc ↗
- Who funds SCOA INC ↗
- Who funds AVOW Hospice Inc ↗
- Who funds SAG HARBOR FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Jaf Foundation · Yaffa Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Gardner Cowles III Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gardner Cowles III Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Avow Hospice Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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